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in a spacious auditor-| the store. ; so that she could com- vals and find out how the r with me at the office 'to learn d at home to advise about arried a brndle home, for ough we lived twenty miles D carry 'dny money, for the Mp bills which were settled > even. offered to pay the their nearby homes, on con= ember of dollars' worth of 1" great. So did I1-=great one establishment in dis- suppose | was better able than 'surface and see how much the It to the 'customer. , ho merchant can afford to N THE BILL, ONLY YOU " CAN'T SEE IT" d with a significant smile: i And, of course, itis. : light upward movement in price, terioration in. quality. With others, an ng off of weight or measure; and the newspapers have announced a e. prices, the retail list remains 'un- er alone. profiting by the difference: look, about and see. what efforts people f Sondivichng The Simplest ot all the tried received its first inipulse from the store- ves, In one cig of hirty-five 'thousand: in- money down for whatever you it home yourself. The bran "1s all in| Letters from a Self: Made Farmer to His Son Whitby, Ontario, Mareh 27, 1912 To James Tompkins, Port Perry, Ont. Dear Jim--- I'm still in Whitby. I expected to get up to Cannington before this, but, your Ma is having such a good time with your Aunt Kate, that it seems cruel to tear them apart. They have so mich to talk about that I can't get in a word edgeways. This visiting business has left me with a sight of time on my hands, there being no-chores to do here to speak of but to wind up the clock and put out the cat. Naturally I've bad a chance to think of something besides feeding the stock and getting up the wood. You couldn't guess what I've been thinking about in a month of Sundays--Woman- Suffrage! No, I'm "Tot starting on the first stage of my second childliood--% know that Sir James Whitney don't approve of women having votes; but that don't prove everything. I know there's a Jot of good people on both sides of politics as don't think that women has enough gumption: to riin them over an election; but that don'tjprove everything, either. y I have seen women that knowed a thing or two, and I won't say that it didn't make me a bit warm- under the collar (when I thought about it, which wasn't often) to know that Bill Picklestaff, what only knows some of some of the different brands of whiskey, and lives mostly on what his old mother gives him, can vote; but your Ma ain't got no say on election day. My idea is that everybody that knows enoughi and acts like a deceat citizen should, ought to have a vote, and those that don't, shouldn't. . Those that can't write and read can't hope to make much of a showing when it comes to voting according to good sense. It's all very fine to talk about mative common-sense and being one of Nature's ~ rough diamonds, etcefesjx. That was a mighty good line of talk when schools and "books was scarce, and work was plentiful. But the man' that can't read and write to-day, ought'to get busy and take lessons. Yes he ought. Pve known a lot of men as had most of their religion in their wife's name, and I've known quite a few who have most of their education in their children's name. Mighty preud they was of them children, 166. Told the neighbors how smart they was and all that. Now if big hunks of educa. : tion is good for the youngsters, good sized slices won't hurt thh old folks, Most of these people ain't right down ignorant, not by a long sight; but a bit more learming would be a. mighty handy thing to have at tithes. o There's a sight of things to learn before any man is cut out to vote aud g know what he's voting about. And I'm free to confess that if the girls gets 'all the schooling, and the bays does all the digging, the first class is going . to grow brains, and the second class is going to_grow myscle; and brain always did run muscle in the end. So if us "lords of creation" wants to keep our place at the top of the heap, we'd better be cute 'enough to' stop - educating the gisls, and send the boys 10 school a spell Ionger before we take them away to run the scuffier in the potato field. We're shaping for 'woman suffrage of soine kind all sight at our present rate of going, and nt hitn't be such a ternble catastrophe as some folks 2 A , than that the fellow that runs for office